Lots of southern boys join the military. Maybe not so much anymore after erasure of their history.
Two members of Black Kettle’s band, the hasf-breed sons of William Bent, of Taos fame, of the Cheyenne tribe, were going to Indian school in St Louis when the civil War broke out. They immediately joined the Confederate army and fought at Wilson’s Creek and Pea Ridge, and down in Mississippi.
Not long after, they were with their band of Cheyennes leading attacks against settlers in Colorado and Kansas.
When the weather got too cold to make war, they sued for peace till the winter of 1864 was over and were going to start the war over in 1865 when the grass got tall enough to support a war pony.
But Chivington, who hated Confederates and considered them “Red Rebels” cleaned their plow at Sand Creek.
This is what our modern history never teaches you about the Sand Creek Massacre.